Pac-12 honors Buffs for sportsmanship after September floods

CU football player D.D. Goodson serves vegatables to residents of CU's Family Housing at Folsom Field during the flooding last September. (David R. Jennings / Broomfield Enterprise)

The Pac-12 Student-Athlete Advisory Committee voted the University of Colorado student-athletes as recipients of the 2013-14 Pac-12 Sportsmanship Award.

The Buffs were honored for both their resiliency and humanitarian efforts in helping the Boulder community recover from the record rainfall and subsequent flooding last September.

"The way our student-athletes, coaches and staff responded during that difficult time was most rewarding to witness personally," CU athletic director Rick George said in a statement Tuesday. "I had only been on campus a month and it really gave me a look at all the wonderful people we have in our program. They put aside their own concerns at the time to help out others in the community in numerous ways."

CU rescheduled all sporting events for the weekend of Sept. 14-15 as flooding overtook Boulder and the surrounding communities.

The CU football team was scheduled to host Fresno State that Saturday and with food for concessions already at the stadium, CU student-athletes spent the day feeding CU's family housing members, most of whom were displaced from their homes which were located in the flood plain, and first responders who had been working tirelessly around the clock.

The Colorado basketball teams also served food at CU's Center For Community building.

CU student-athletes also helped raise almost $5,000 for the CU-Boulder Disaster Recovery Fund during the Buffs' makeup football game against Charleston Southern on Oct. 19.

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"I can't express enough how proud I am of our student-athletes and their well-deserved award," CU-Boulder Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano said. "Many of them sustained flood damage to their homes and lost their possessions. Yet amid their own distress, they stepped up for the community. Their generous acts brought feelings of solace to our community's first responders and displaced residents."

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